Swob
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A cleaning tool made of absorbent material fixed to a handle, used for washing floors.
“He grabbed a swob to mop up the water that had spilled across the kitchen floor.”
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SW plus OB ending, the O is the only vowel, a variant spelling of SWAB.
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Scrabble
Worth 9 points, SWOBS pluralises, less well known than SWAB but perfectly valid.
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